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ReviewBiochemical Society transactions2025

eIF3: a critical player in mRNA recruitment to the ribosome with emerging roles across translation.

Nicholas A Ide, Sufana Noorwez, Christine Xu, Colin Echeverría Aitken

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Review in Biochemical Society transactions, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nicholas A IdeDepartment of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A.ORCID 0009-0003-1571-3505
Sufana Noorwez *Biochemistry Program, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Christine Xu *Biochemistry Program, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Colin Echeverría AitkenBiochemistry Program, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.ORCID 0000-0003-2187-0614

Funding

THE ROLE OF THE mRNA-ENTRY-CHANNEL ARM OF eIF3 IN mRNA RECRUITMENTR15GM140372 · NIGMS · VASSAR COLLEGE · PI AITKEN, COLIN · 2020 to 2024
$807k
NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM140372
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eukaryotic translation initiation factor (eIF) 3 is a multi-subunit protein complex that plays critical roles throughout translation initiation and has been implicated in a variety of human diseases. More recently, eIF3 has been tied to translation elongation and termination, as well as translational regulation. And yet, a mechanistic understanding of how eIF3 and its constituent subunits perform their canonical roles during initiation continues to elude us. Work across the last two decades has delineated broad mechanistic roles for some of these subunits and identified distinct modules of the complex that contribute differentially to the recruitment of messenger RNA (mRNA) to the ribosome during initiation. Structural approaches have further illuminated these putative roles. And yet, key mechanistic questions tied to fundamental technical challenges remain. Even so, new developments are poised to address these challenges and push our understanding of eIF3 function forward in the coming years.

Indexed as

Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3Protein BiosynthesisRibosomesRNA, MessengerAnimalsHumansPeptide Chain Initiation, TranslationalEukaryotic Initiation Factor-3RNA, Messengerbiochemistryeukaryotic gene expressionmolecular mechanismsMRNAribosomestranslation

Identifiers

PMID41441844
PMCPMC12794334

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